Yes, is very interesting to pick a zone and learn the history of the location.

Rurik is a semi-legendary character, we know about him only from one source called "Primary Chronicle" that is writen in 1100. 300 years after his lifetime. No other source prove his existence, so thats that...

Hey man, Huge fan of your CK3 videos. If you’re ever in need of video ideas, I think providing historical context for potential campaigns would be a really cool series idea. I feel you’ve killed it with the tutorial and guide videos already, so providing historical campaign ideas would be really cool for those of us who aren’t huge history buffs. Loved the little history lesson you gave at the start of this stream. You’ve taught us all how to play the game, now teach us some history so we can try and recreate it in game!

That was a really good explanation on the history of the Rus. Thank you for introducing me to this. Please take care of your health and stay safe.

By far man, best content on CK3. I love hearing the history with your viseos

Normally I wouldn't watch videos this long but I love the way your breaking it up for example the history section.

Thank you very much for such a good part of the history. I love it ❤❤ ❤ Keep going, Bro !!!

Love the content! Very interesting Slav history

Thanks bud im playing it right now cool found me a play through

Dude. This was sweet. Pacing wasn't my ideal and slow at times but I love the thoughtfulness and deliberation. The direction was well balanced with strategy. Finally a ck3 content provider I can subscribe to

Nice Beard Brother. Also you helped me step up my CK 3 game Big time! Keep it up.

Just recently found CK3. Love your Mount n Blade videos. Thanks for all you do

I like the derivation of Rus for Children of Ash and Elm. He argues that it originally comes from Ruslag, a region of Sweden which refers to Rowers. He argues that Rus was initally the name for river raiders originating near Lake Ladoga. Northern raiders were broadly employed as both raiders and security for traders. Eventually Rus came to mean people who controlled the rivers and was a combination of Norse fortune seekers and local Slav fighters. This then progressed to a combined ethnicity

Miss your 40k lore videos. They’re my favourite out of any KZfaqr

Damn I miss the steam, oh well maybe hopefully next time, also I hope that you have/had a glorious and safe day to you as always ItalianSpartacus.

Are they Vikings? "I don't think so" - The Kievan Rus

Yes, the only genius in 867, my main campaign ATM

"Nipper river, I think of it like uh... never mind"

"Holmgard" means "Island Town" in old norse. It originally only was just the island off the coast of present day Veliky Novgorod where norse people built a fort as their base of operations.

Love the videos, great history lessons, and the religion is pronounced AH-saw-true, got the game because of your vidoes.

i think you're going to have alot of fun with kiev

0:55:00 1) also consider a spouse with the same congenital traits as you. That guaranties that you get the trait on the child. And I think (if I am wrong, "reinforce" already means the above) there is a a chance to "reinforce" congenital traits, making them inherited to your future lineage instead. 2) you see that giant is considered a bad trait, because it has that red icon.

Im currently playing a game as the oskyldr dynasty and i subjugated khazaria, took over egypt, remade the kabarite high priesthood, and for a little while held jerusalem.

Coincidence: last night I started an Arpad campaign and took kiev before migrating. I installed an old guy, and my son stayed his heir. He promptly died and I inherited kiev all the way from hungary.

As soon as you replaced your court physician, your wound got fixed. Your physician was probably terrible

Dropping a comment for the algorithm, I do enjoy the history lessons though👍

I know this was a year ago but holy suit bro it took you a hr and half to start playing the game

I need to do this campaign ;)

I find it odd that as I play with this exact character it has this show up on my feed

Thoroughly enjoying the opening moves for this Ruler, I followed some of your suggestions and found some of my own lucky opportunities. I spent my first 100 piety and divorced Sif to marry a herculean norse bride, raided into byzantium and took a beautiful concubine off a Baron. However I noticed you have a realm size of 6 and I have yet to break out of 5 holdings. I have the full Duchy and my spouse is aiding in stewardship. Did I just roll low or did you change your tribal law? I just dont like giving away all my holdings to vassals right away. Great videos I think your style is great, your tutorial advice helped me immensely when I played as Dublin.

like your historical approach to playing this game, your kingdom name is swedish and means like kings-city, könug means king kungen ;)

I’d have enjoyed history class so much more if it was taught like this actually.

Is bishop heygmond from the vikings series on this game? He has bad ass

Do you have the Holmgard campaign?

Event heraldry is similar with Ukrainian Trident and currency "Hryvnia"(grivna) was already in 11-12 century Rus'

What’s your Twitter? You mentioned it but I can’t find you.

coming back to this playlist after watch the Putin interview

Holmgargr The eth symbol (D with a line) is pronounced as a g when followed by an r. Otherwise its pronounced as eth. The weird lookin p is basically the eth symbol, but at the beginning of words rather than in the middle. That particular one is known as the Thorn symbol. I dont believe it follows the R rule.

120 kilos is pretty good my dude

Holmgardr does indeed sound scandinavian.

The using your women to get good councillors is great. Its great when your beginning advisors are terrible.

"Ascold creates Kyiv", that's some nonsense. Kyiv was founded by Kyi, that's where city name comes from: Kyi-iv - Kyi is name of the founder and ending "iv" is modifying this noun, so "Kyiv" means "City of Kyi" or "City, that belongs to Kyi"

A 300 kg deadlift 🥴 I hurt my back at 300 lbs. I can’t even imagine kilos.

Cara Gee is my Canadian crush :)

That is so strange that some people call history of Rus' as solely history of Russia

i did this campaign myself. but i created a new character with the same stats - not married - no childeren. in this way you can start the game and search for a suitable wife from the start. 1 downside, you start the game with waaaay less gold.

Watch this during school so 8:00

A couple of other uses of marrying of your courtiers... knights die often, so make sure you marry them off, so their widows can bring in new knights. Marrying courtiers is also great for getting physicians. Search for physicians who aren't married and marry them to your courtiers (usual problems with religion etc). This way you aren't paying for bringing new people into your court :)

I from Kiev. From true Kievan Rus-Ukrainan. Not from fake Rus-Russia

Catherine winnick is Ukrainian FYI I believe her ancestors were from Kyiv

CK3 with Babish

The TV show Vikings isn't exactly historical though. While they have a lot of historical names of their characters, the show is 100% fantasy inspired loosely on history.

hay boss play pleas as wallachia end forge romania

Awesome video. FWIW, I'm pretty sure the Rurikid line goes through to the Romanovs. In the end of the 1590s, after Ivan IV (the Terrible) forms Russia, the main Rurikid line dies out. From there, the Boyars, the nobles, elect a distant Rurikid cousin, Michael/Mikael I to lead, and while he's not as close to the main ruling Rurikid line, he was part of the family. From there, I'm pretty sure Michael went on to the progenitor of the Romanov line through till 1917. Here's the family tree from Rurik to Nicholas II for those interested: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_tree_of_Russian_monarchs

why does he looks like a younger, more buffed version of Vsauce ?

Only that they weren't vikings and did not follow the norse culture but the slavic one. Techincly, by the time the game starts, the Kievan Rus should already exist

Less common do Strathclyde

1:24:00 before the game is unpaused. Seems like maybe things could be trimmed a bit. The history lesson is great but the interaction with your stream grinds things to a hault.

So many wrong statements in the "history" part of the video... Strange, I thought wikipedia is available everywhere

Ukraine has more material heritage from Kievan Rus than modern Russian Federation

there was no russia in Kievan Rus

Sorry I can’t pronúnciate. It’s my nickname on twicht they said DAIR , ok with dire

also the russian culture is unique because of slavic norse and the greeks founded a written alphabet for them

i am not 100% sure but i think your starting wife might have genius or intelligent inactive genetic trait passing down i often see this guy having many genius kids more then he sould have anyway in my games.

You're tribal so you can go to war against any neighbour... so why bother with de jure? I don't get it.

Yup, marry female courtiers matrilineally to find prime knights.

Love it so far, but the throat clearing may force me out soon...

Muscovy created Russian Empire, they did everything to separate themselves from Rus' even late Muscovy rulers didn't even sit in Kiev after defeating Kievan armies to show that center "moves" to Moscow i guess the best and kinda simple way of showing Rus' history thats Kings and Generals documental, where actually they see and connect obvious contact between Rus' and Ruthenia, also Galicia Volhynia which are completely missed for some reason by most of western people, i guess they don't even know that people from West Ukraine called Ruthenians (and it is nothing to have with russia in future) even in times of Commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania russia it is just taken and changed name of Rus' on Greek manner and was only in titles of Kings like Ivan The Terrible, just as all other titles as political tool to show claims to territories.

A lot of Russian comments for a geography that’s mostly Ukraine.

Перші археологічні знахідки на місці Новгорода - Х століття. Багато що - відверта фальсифікація росіян, які привласнювали те, що їм не належить!

You should cough more.

I really like your videos. But i dont like your playthroughs much because they are long and filled with interaction with people chatting with you, but without you quoting what they say. That means that the transmission is filled with "holes", silence, your comments to things we who dont look at the stream cant see. If i can give you an advise it is to fill those holes. Quote what people write to you. read it loud while you are reading them. Put them in context. What you say is interesting. But every step in the game that takes 1 minute to do and explain takes 4-5 minutes to watch due to all "dead" time.

Rurik had nothing to do with the russians or the russian empire lol Russia is not Kievan rus

It should be Kiev Rus in English…